1. Different Types of Learners By Aygun Qasimova and Shani Backstrom

2. What Kind of Learner are You?

3. Definition of Learning Styles:  What is a learning style?  Is an individual’s mode of learning and the way they remember information best.  How many learning styles are there?  There are as many learning styles as there are people. Educational researchers have broken the styles into many categories. However, there are three main learning categories: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

4. What are Learning Styles? Information enters your brain three main ways: sight, hearing and touch. Which one you use the most is called your Learning Style  Visual Learners learn by sight  Auditory Learners learn by hearing  Tactile Learners (kinesthetic) learn by touch

6. Visual Learners  They prefer to see information such as pictures, diagrams, cartoons, demonstrations  They picture words and concepts they hear as images  They are easily distracted in lecture with no visual aids  But, they are overwhelmed with intense visuals accompanied by lecture  They benefit from using charts, maps, notes, and flash cards when studying

9. Auditory Learners  They prefer to hear information spoken  They can absorb a lecture with little effort  They may not need careful notes to learn.  They often avoid eye contact in order to concentrate  They may read aloud to themselves  They like background music when they study

12. Tactile or Kinesthetic Learners  They prefer touch as their primary mode for taking in information  In traditional lecture situations, they should write out important facts  They create study sheets connected to vivid examples  Role-playing can help them learn and remember important ideas Okay, I get it now.

15. Helpful language learning activities (1)  If you are auditory, you should:  Listen to music or to the radio by native speakers.  Watch TV, videos or movies in the native language  Singing a song in the language.  If you are visual, you should:  Read textbooks and magazines in the language which includes interesting topics.  Create visuals for each new vocabulary word  Make a chart of this new alphabet.

16. Helpful language learning activities (2)  If you are kinesthetic:  Learn an “action” to each new vocabulary word.  Take cooking lessons in the native language.  Role-play and dialogue with actions  Create manipulatives (notes or activities with moveable parts for you to sort or create sentences with)

17. Extraversion/Introversion (Other Types of Learners)  Extroverts  Like talking with others and taking action.  Prefer active learning and group projects.  Introverts  Prefer to have others do the talking.  Prefer lectures and structured tasks.

18. Using Knowledge of Your Learning Style Knowing your learning style, both your strengths and your weaknesses, can help you study more effectively. As a teacher, it can help you teach to the different types of learners in your classroom.

19. Different Teaching Styles Are they compatible with different learning styles? Lecture – teacher talks all period Group discussion – teacher talks but encourages discussion Small groups – teacher aids (facilitates) group interaction Visual focus – teacher uses lots of visual aids Verbal focus – words, words & more words Logical sequence – teacher presents material in a step-by-step, reasonable format Random sequence – teacher jumps all over the place

20. Build Strengths across the Learning Styles You teach using different learning styles so that students can:  Make the best use of their learning style.  Work harder in skills that don ’ t come easily to them.  Become flexible and adaptable, trying new things and new ways of learning.  Keep growing and learning!